ZDNet Asia, 13 Apr 2009, Bryan Tan
This is not about Alice in Wonderland but about a Singapore government scholar by the name of Eng Kai Er. It seems Eng, who graduated from Cambridge University, is a 2007 A*Star National Science Scholarship (NSS) recipient doing her Ph.D. in Infection Biology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. She was charged in court for walking around nude in Holland Village, a popular watering hole in Singapore.
For the benefit of non-Singaporeans, government scholars are the cream of the crop--the best and the brightest--upon whom expensive scholarships and an accelerated career track are showered upon. I guess the best is expected from such individuals, so any sign of deviance would hit the headlines.
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